shrivel

英 [ˈʃrɪvl]

美 [ˈʃrɪvl]

v.  (使)枯萎，干枯，皱缩

过去式：shrivelled　过去分词：shrivelled　现在分词：shrivelling　第三人称单数：shrivels　复数：shrivels　

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Collins.1 / BNC.15916 / COCA.16142

短语动词

牛津词典

verb

• （使）枯萎，干枯，皱缩
  to become or make sth dry and wrinkled as a result of heat, cold or being old
  1. The leaves on the plant had shrivelled up from lack of water.
     因为缺水，植物的叶子已经枯萎了。
  2. The hot weather had shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard.
     天气炎热，各家葡萄园的葡萄都蔫了。

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 shriveling, shriveled


• V-ERG (使)枯萎;(使)干枯;(使)皱缩
  When somethingshrivelsor when somethingshrivelsit, it becomes dryer and smaller, often with lines in its surface, as a result of losing the water it contains.
  1. The plant shrivels and dies.
     植物干枯而死。
  2. ...dry weather that shrivelled this summer's crops.
     造成今夏作物枯萎的干旱天气
  3. Shrivel upmeans the same asshrivel.
     shrivel up 同 shrivel
  4. The leaves started to shrivel up.
     叶子开始枯萎。

英英释义

verb

• decrease in size, range, or extent
  1. His earnings shrank
  2. My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me
  Synonym:shrink
• wither, as with a loss of moisture
  1. The fruit dried and shriveled
  Synonym:shrivel upshrinkwither

双语例句

• The seeds shrivel under their clods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up.
  珥1：17谷种在土块下朽烂.仓也荒凉、廪也破坏.因为五谷枯乾了。
• The axon degenerated, shrivel and vanished;
  轴索变性、萎缩和脱失。
• Then their seed ripens, and soon they turn brown and shrivel up.
  随后，它们的种子熟了，不久就变枯萎。
• Shrinkage contributed to an increase in the concentration of basic grape ingredients such as sugar and acid. An appropriate degree of shrinkage was apparently helpful in improving the phenolic content and increasing the antioxidant activity, but the berries that continued to shrivel showed a low antioxidant activity.
  研究结果显示：皱缩会导致果实基本成分诸如糖、酸浓度的增加；适度皱缩有益于葡萄中酚类物质浓度及抗氧化活性的提高，但是深度皱缩会使抗氧化能力显著降低。
• As you say, creditors are roosting in trees like vultures waiting to swoop down on anything valuable. In the absence of vultures, they have been reduced to rigging their towers with solar reflectors to shrivel the corpses.
  你晓得，那些债主象兀鹰一般歇在树枝上，伺机对任何有价值的东西飞扑下来。如果没有兀鹫的话，帕西人就不得不在高塔上装备太阳反射装置来把死尸照枯。
• Each day, with strength and shame, Mary trudged to the letterbox in hope, only to swivel, shrivel and slink back inside.
  每天，带着兴奋和惭愧，玛丽跋涉到满怀希望的邮箱前，只是为了打开，关上然后偷偷溜进屋子。
• Private colleges have seen their endowments and investment income shrivel because of the financial crisis, while public colleges have had funding cut by cash-strapped state governments.
  由于经济危机的缘故，私立大学的捐助资金和投资收入都减少了。
• Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
  你的财富、名望和短暂的权利将变得无足轻重。
• If you stay in that bathtub any longer, you'll shrivel up into a prune.
  如果你再呆在水里，你要皱成一个干果了。
• We should worry as much, or more, about the tendency of authorities to give a wink and a nod to anti-competitive practices during a downturn as about the survival of companies that are anyhow due to shrivel in a world of innovating entrepreneurs.
  我们既应担心那些本来就会在创新的企业家世界中枯萎的企业的生存，也应担心（甚至更加担心）政府倾向于在经济低迷时期默许甚至赞同反竞争行为。